International reviews

Office politics at all levels. Band of brothers from GM took over the company couple of years ago and it's easy to see that the history will repeat itself if you mix in the same GM ingredients. Culture of mediocrity. Decisions are rarely based on logical and factual data driven arguments. Most of the middle management that was worth something left over last couple of years and either people that were "good enough" were promoted to the empty positions or the positions left empty got eliminated leaving overworked employees in a lot of department. The layoffs and departures cut the personnel to the bare bones. Promotions happen if you're part of the "gang", otherwise get back to your desk and work more and harder as that's what's expected of you. The company used to have great learning center with tons of courses, now there is almost nothing left for employees to utilize as a training tool. Old school corporate giant that will go down if change doesn't come soon. Hardly any innovation happening on the product side. They still market a product that was developed in 70's with hardly any improvements over the years, not to mention that it looks like someone beat it with the ugly stick.

There were also people who didn't work very hard, but were popular. The company was a relationship-based environment, and in my opinion this lead me to believe it was more important in who you know rather than what you know. It was difficult to finalize decisions as everyone had to agree, so it was frustrating to conduct or attend a meeting, believing a decision would be forthcoming, walking out of the meeting with no decision on future direction.